When Mainstream Media Aids And Abets The Enemy

The mainstream media or MSM for the longest time during the Iraq war have provided articles and comments giving every bit of negative light about the U.S. and coalition soldiers as a way to depress, demoralize and defame their actions. Most of these, uh, "reporters" have never set foot in Iraq and all they can do is report on the killings of U.S. and coalition soldiers and never about the good deeds, actions and daily reconstruction efforts to constant improve the Iraqis standard of living. It is so easy to report on good news and get the Iraqis side of the story such as "Voices of Iraq" or "Iraq the model" with Iraqi brothers in Bagdad reporting what they see daily on the ground where MSM would never dare report because they want America to lose.

With the constant negative reporting by MSM the terrorists constantly see this as a victory on their part. And this is what the MSM and Liberals want. The actions by the MSM are simply aiding and abetting the enemy. Every headline they grab is a victory for the terrorists. Those who have read the ancient Chinese military theorist and army general Sun Tsu will recall the philosophy of "Kill one, scare ten thousand" as the basic theory behind the strategy of terrorism. The MSM and Associated Press are nothing more that propoganda scaring machines for the benefits of terrorists around the world.

Lieutenant Colonel Tim Ryan (CO, 2/12 Cav, 1st Cav Div) stationed in Iraq fighting the war has more than just a few choice words for the MSM.

In Fallujah, the enemy death toll has already exceeded 1,500 and still is climbing. Put one in the win column for the good guys, right? Wrong. As soon as there was nothing negative to report about Fallujah, the media shifted its focus to other parts of the country. Just yesterday, a major news agency's website lead read: "Suicide Bomber Kills Six in Baghdad" and "Seven Marines Die in Iraq Clashes." True, yes. Comprehensive, no. Did the author of this article bother to mention that Coalition troops killed 50 or so terrorists while incurring those seven losses? Of course not. Nor was there any mention about the substantial progress these offensive operations continue to achieve in defeating the insurgents. Unfortunately, this sort of incomplete reporting has become the norm for the media, whose poor job of presenting a complete picture of what is going on in Iraq borders on being criminal.

You can read the rest of his extensive piece that gives numerous examples of why MSM is aiding and abetting the enemy. In this case, in Iraq. He noted, however, in his post script an interesting fact:

Postscript: I have had my staff aggressively pursue media coverage for all sorts of events that tell the other side of the story only to have them turned down or ignored by the press in Baghdad. Strangely, I found it much easier to lure the Arab media to a "non-lethal" event than the western outlets. Open a renovated school or a youth center and I could always count on Al-Iraqia or even Al-Jazeera to show up, but no western media ever showed up – ever. Now I did have a pretty dangerous sector, the Abu Ghuraib district that extends from western Baghdad to the outskirts of Fallujah (not including the prison), but it certainly wasn't as bad as Fallujah in November and there were reporters in there.

We have the "Associated Press Admits Relationship With Terrorists" with Jack Stokes, the AP's director of media relations:

Several brave Iraqi photographers work for The Associated Press in places that only Iraqis can cover. Many are covering the communities they live in where family and tribal relations give them access that would not be available to Western photographers, or even Iraqi photographers who are not from the area.

Insurgents want their stories told as much as other people and some are willing to let Iraqi photographers take their pictures. It's important to note, though, that the photographers are not "embedded" with the insurgents. They do not have to swear allegiance or otherwise join up philosophically with them just to take their pictures.

Yet, it was the terrorists who tipped off the photographer (or the AP), and that's why they dragged the two election workers from their car, so they could be shot in front of the AP reporter's obliging camera. This goes to show that the AP was all too happy to cooperate with the terrorists in all respects. Rather than rely on photos that just happened to capture the moment. In this case, there were no moments here that were just a coincidence being at the "right time at the right place." It was a plan. Plain and simple. A sinister plan by both the terrorists, MSM and the Associated Press. Otherwise the AP reporter taking the picture several feet away from the actual slaughter of the two election workers would have been shot just as well for interfering with the killing plan.

Where are the stories on Iraq's reconstruction and rebuilding efforts in strengthening their infrastructures? Or note the positive daily Iraq updates? Or the weekly progress report? Or perhaps note the 19 terrorists nabbed in a joint raid in Iraq? And yet in the Defend America military website it provides both good and bad news. But you won't see the MSM provide a picture in their new report such as this one.